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How artificial intelligence helps the fire department
ARD German TV News | September 8, 2023

California's fire department wants to put out forest fires before they get too big. To do this, the dpartment is testing a system that works with arti...

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This 3D-printed 'living waffle' could help solve water pollution
Yahoo! News | September 7, 2023

It looks like a bizarre, green waffle, but the 3D printed structure could offer a sustainable way to clean pollutants from water, say University of Ca...

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Using 3D-printed cyanobacteria to clean water
Cosmos Magazine | September 6, 2023

A team of US researchers has mixed a seaweed extract with a genetically engineered bacteria to create a substance which can break down common pollutan...

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Material uses live cyanobacteria to neutralize waterborne pollutants
New Atlas | September 6, 2023

We often hear of cyanobacteria as being the cause of toxic blue-green algae blooms in lakes and rivers. Soon, however, a 3D-printed material that inco...

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Startups Are Inventing Cooling Clothes for a Hotter Future
Bloomberg | September 1, 2023

From fabric that reflects sunlight to apparel that comes with its own thermostat, companies are creating outfit options to help people cope amid more ...

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Burying Power Lines Prevents Wildfires. But There?s a Cost
WIRED | September 1, 2023

Investigators are eying the Lahaina wildfire as yet another deadly blaze started by electrical equipment. Putting lines underground would help?at a st...

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Behind the scenes of the TallWood shake table test at UC San Diego
ASCE/Civil Engineering Source | August 28, 2023

It is often said: ?The bigger they are, the harder they fall.? But the largest full-scale building ever tested on the University of California San Die...

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Why Today?s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong
IEEE Spectrum | August 26, 2023

Q&A with Jacobs School alumna Janelle Shane, who runs the blog AI Weirdness and has written a book on the topic of AI....

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How one device could help transform our power grid
Science News | August 24, 2023

From Colorado to Washington, from Ohio to Pennsylvania, coal-fired power plants are shutting down. The United States is on track to retire half of its...

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Robotic Hand Uses Sense of Touch to Rotate Objects
Design News | August 16, 2023

One of the key goals for robotics developers is to create machines with similar sensory perception as humans, particularly for the sense of touch. Thi...

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How we'll thrive in 2050
CNN | August 12, 2023

From wearables and "implantables," to health selfies and digital twins, the next evolution in high-tech health care is on the horizon....

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Duck scoop: robot hands sense rubber ducks without sight
Cosmos | July 28, 2023

Robots often use imagery of objects to move them -- but when people turn things over in our hands, we use touch. A team of US researchers has added ch...

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